Building Life Skills for Wellness: What's Your Health IQ?

1. Skills for a Healthy Life Chapter 2

2. What’s Your Health IQ? • 1 = Never • 2 = Sometimes • 3 = Most of the time • 4 = All of the time

3. What’s Your Health IQ? 1. I review all of my choices before I make a decision. 2. I think about the outcome for each possible choice. 3. I make decisions that support my beliefs. 4. I think about the decisions I make afterward so that I can learn from them. 5. I stop to think about who might be affected by the decisions I make. 6. I usually ask for advice when I have a tough decision to make. 7. If I make a bad decision, I try to correct any problem my decision caused.

4. Building Life Skills Chapter 2.1

5. 2.1 Objectives • State the importance of practicing life skills for lifelong wellness. • List10 life skills that you need for a healthy life. • Predict how you can use each of the 10 life skills in your daily life.

6. 2.1 Key Terms – Cornell Note Taking Style(CNS) What is a Life Skill? A tool for building a healthy life What is coping? Dealing w/problems & troubles in an effective way What is a consumer? A person who buys products or services

7. 2.1 Key Terms con’t.– Cornell Note Taking Style (CNS) What is the Media? All public forms of communication, ex: TV, radio, Internet, Newspaper, advertisements, billboards, movies, bumper stickers What is a Resource? Something that you can use that helps you achieve a goal

8. (CNS) What are the 10 Life Skills? Communicating Effectively Practicing Wellness Coping Being a Wise Consumer Evaluating Media Messages Assessing Your Health Using Community Resources Making GREAT Decisions Using Refusal Skills Setting Goals

9. 1. Assessing Your Health • How do you know if you are doing the right thing for your health? • This life skill will help you: • Evaluate your health • Evaluate how your actions & behaviors affect your health • Enable you to find out what you need to do to improve your health

10. 2. Communicating Effectively • Knowing how to listen & speak effectively • These skills will help improve your relationships with your • family, • classmates, • teachers & other adults

11. 3. Practicing Wellness • Examples of healthy behaviors you may practice are: • getting enough sleep, • choosing nutritious foods, & • avoiding risky behaviors.

12. 4. Coping • Dealing with troubles or problems in a effective way. • This life skill will help you deal with: • difficult times & situations & • with emotions such as • anger, • depression, & • loss of a loved one.

13. 5. Being a Wise Consumer • A consumer is a person who buys products or services. • This life skill will help you make good decisions when buying health products & services.

14. 6. Evaluating Media Messages • The average number of advertisements a person sees in 1 day is 3,000 • The media has a significant influence on what you learn about the world. • This life skill will give you the tools to analyze media messages. • Knowing how to analyze media messages will help you make better decisions about your health.

15. 7. Using Community Resources • Every community has a wealth of services that provide help for all aspects of health (mental & physical) • This life skill will help you find these services

16. 8. Making GREAT Decisions • This life skill will give you the steps to make the right decisions for yourself.

17. 9. Refusal Skills • This life skill will provide you with different ways you can say “no” to something you do not want to do.

18. 10. Setting Goals • This life skill will provide you with tips to help you reach your goals.

19. What is a consumer? Someone who buys & uses products & services Being a Wise Consumer

20. What Influences A Consumer To Buy? • Your needs, wants and values • Family • Advertising • Society • Culture • Financial resources • Friends • Interests • Technology

21. What is Identity Theft? The illegal use of an individual’s personal information. Protect Your Privacy!

22. How Does Identity Theft Happen? Your wallet or purse containing personal info is stolen Your mail is stolen You complete a change of address form to have your mail sent to another location Your information is taken out of the dumpster Someone looks over your shoulder From your credit receipts Off the internet Your records at a business are stolen People pose as reps from banks or government agencies to get the information directly from you

23. What can you do to protect yourself? Don’t give out your S.S. number Don’t give out personal info over the phone, mail, or e-mail Use a secure site when giving info out on the internet Tear up or shred documents Change online passwords frequently Keep personal information locked up Make sure no one is watching when you use the ATM machine

24. Section Review Chapter 2.1

25. 2.1 Review – Key Terms • What is coping? • Identify the term for “a person who buys products & services. • Identify the term for something that you can use to help achieve a goal.

26. 2.1 Review – Key Ideas • Summarize the importance of practicing life skills for lifelong wellness. • Name the skill that teaches you good listening skills • Identify the skill that helps you make good decisions when buying health products or services. • Name the life skill that will help you say no to something you don’t want to do.

27. 2.1 Review – Key Terms • What is coping? • Dealing with problems & troubles in an effective way • Identify the term for “a person who buys products & services. • Consumer • Identify the term for something that you can use to help achieve a goal. • Resource

28. 2.1 Review – Key Ideas • Summarize the importance of practicing life skills for lifelong wellness. • Using life skills can help enhance your health throughout your lifetime • Name the skill that teaches you good listening skills • Communicating Effectively • Identify the skill that helps you make good decisions when buying health products or services. • Being a Wise Consumer • Name the life skill that will help you say no to something you don’t want to do. • Refusal Skills

29. 2.1 Critical Thinking & Summary • Practicing Wellness • Choose three life skills. • In your Journal, describe how you can apply each of these life skills in your life. • Write 2-3 sentences summarizing what you learned in this section.

30. Making GREAT Decisions Chapter 2.2

31. 2.2 Objectives • Describe the importance of making decisions. • Summarize what you should do if you make a wrong decision • Apply the Making GREAT Decisions model to make a decision

32. 2.3 Key Terms – Cornell Notes • What is a A result of your consequence? actions & decisions • What is To work together collaboration? w/one or more people

33. Using the Making GREAT Decision Model (Cornell NS) • G Give thought to the problem • R Review your choices • E Evaluate the consequences of each choice • A Assess & choose the best choice • T Think it over after you’ve made your decision

34. Stop, Think, & Go (CNS) • STOP Stop & admit you made a poor decision & take responsibility for what you’ve done • THINK Think about who you can talk with to discuss ways to correct the situation • GO Go & do your best to correct the situation.

35. Section Review Chapter 2.2

36. 2.2 Review - Key Terms 1. Identify the term for “a result of your actions and decisions.” 2. Define the term collaborate.

37. 2.2 Review - Key Ideas 3. Describe the importance of making decisions. 4. Identify the steps of the Making GREAT Decisions model. 5. Summarize why it is important to think about decisions you make afterward. 6. Describe what you can do if you make a wrong decision.

38. 2.2 Review - Key Terms 1. Identify the term for “a result of your actions and decisions.” • Consequence 2. Define the term collaborate. • To work together w/one or more people 3. Describe the importance of making decisions. • Because the decisions you makeaffect your health & the health of others

39. 2.2 Review - Key Ideas 3. Describe the importance of making decisions. • Because the decisions you makeaffect your health & the health of others 4. Identify the steps of the Making GREAT Decisions model. • Give thoughtto the problem • Review your choice • Evaluate theconsequencesof each choice • Assess & choosethe best choice • Think it overafter you’ve made your choice

40. 2.2 Review - Key Ideas 5. Summarize why it is important to think about decisions you make afterward. • So you can learn from the experience & use what you learned the next time you make a decision. 6. Describe what you can do if you make a wrong decision. • STOP & admit that you made a bad decision, • THINK about who you can talk w/about the correcting the situation, then • GO & do your best to correct the situation.

41. 2.2 Critical Thinking & Summary • Apply the Making GREAT Decisions model to a situation in which you need to make a decision. • Describe a time when you worked effectively with someone else to make a decision. • Write 2-3 sentences summarizing what you learned in this section.

42. Resisting Pressure from Others Chapter 2.3

43. 2.3 OBJECTIVES • Statewho influences your behavior. • Identifythree types of direct pressure. • Identifythree types of indirect pressure • Statean example of each of the 12 types of refusal skills. • Applyone of the refusal skills to a pressure in your life.

44. 2.3 Key Terms – Cornell Notes • What is Believing you should peer pressure? do something because your friends want you to. • What is direct When someone tries pressure? to convince you to do something you normally wouldn’t do.

45. 2.3 Key Terms (CNS) • What is indirect Doing something pressure? because people you admire are doing it. • What are Strategies to avoid refusal skills? doing something you don’t want to do.

46. Who & What Influences You? Friends Family Media & Advertisements movies, TV, & radio books, magazines, newspapers, the Internet (CNS)

47. What is the purpose of advertising? To make people want to buy - what the advertiser has to sell! Media & Advertisements

48. What are the benefits of advertising to the consumer? Helpful to consumers when it provides information about products & services Makes it possible for information & entertainment to be provided at little or no cost to the public

49. What are the drawbacks of advertising? The average person sees 3,000 ads daily People find them annoying, especially during their favorite T.V. show It persuades people to spend money they can’t afford on goods or services they don’t really need Some ads are misleading Increases the prices that consumers pay for goods & services Adding up to 75% to the cost of the product

50. What is the Power of Advertising? Advertising Influences the food you eat, the clothes you buy, the car you drive etc….